Patricia Rodrigues schrieb:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard#New_... While you're at it, reading http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Be_civil might be a good idea before you call a long hard work on a functional system a "disaster".

Hi Patricia

Shure the previous comment was not so kind. But I wouldn't call the change user friendly either would you? To get the old comfort you now have to mess around with javascript.

And you're still asked for the "date of work" while almost any camera records this accurately in the metadata. User friendlyness would be: "Your camera says this picture was shot Nov 13th 2007 9:12. Is that correct? Yes/correct".

Regards

Robin

Cary Bass schrieb:

| | And you're still asked for the "date of work" while almost any camera | records this accurately in the metadata. User friendlyness would be: | "Your camera says this picture was shot Nov 13th 2007 9:12. Is that | correct? Yes/correct".

This only suffices if it's an unedited photograph direct from a digital camera which records this. Anything else still has to be manually input.

There may of course be image editors with bugs. But take Photoshop and Irfanview as two common editors that handle the data correctly. Anyway it was just a side note. We need to improve overall usability on Commons. Search is another construction site...

Regards

Robin

Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com hat am 29. Mai 2008 um 02:55 geschrieben:

applies to the date of digitization.  I'm wary about assuming information embedded in the photo is correct, even if we ask the user to confirm.

Who can you trust then? The users brain? When I upload pictures taken more than one day ago I always watch the Metadata. I use a program to make folders for all images with the same date in the metadata.

The date of scanned files is a different problem. Many users currently enter the date of scanning manually because they don't have the original date. Technique can't solve this problem but it won't make it worse.

Regards

Robin

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Robin Schwab contact@robinschwab.ch wrote:

Patricia Rodrigues schrieb:

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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard#New_... While you're at it, reading http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Be_civil might be a good idea before you call a long hard work on a functional system a "disaster".

Hi Patricia

Shure the previous comment was not so kind. But I wouldn't call the change user friendly either would you? To get the old comfort you now have to mess around with javascript.

Without having read the whole thread: Isn't there a gadget to turn the upload form off? If not it would be trivial to make.

Bryan

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Maria Fanucchi marialadouce@gmail.com wrote:

On 5/29/08, Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongminh@gmail.com wrote:

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On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Robin Schwab contact@robinschwab.ch wrote:

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Patricia Rodrigues schrieb:

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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard#New_... While you're at it, reading http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Be_civil might be a good idea before you call a long hard work on a functional system a "disaster".

Hi Patricia

Shure the previous comment was not so kind. But I wouldn't call the change user friendly either would you? To get the old comfort you now have to mess around with javascript.

Without having read the whole thread: Isn't there a gadget to turn the upload form off? If not it would be trivial to make.

Bryan

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To use the old upload form you can go directly to this link: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&uselang=ex...

or

you can add the following script to your monobook.js:

var UploadForm_forcebasic = true;

--Maria

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People who don't like the new upload form can now disable it via the Gadgets tab in My preferences. Personally I would say that this form is a huge improvement :)

Bryan